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Title: Ruling engine in Mount Wilson Observatory's Pasadena optical laboratory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1913
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Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Ruling engine ('A' machine) in main optical shop of Mount Wilson Observatory, in Pasadena. This room is Clement Jacomini's new workshop. Two halves of ruling nut in foreground.
Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Identifier: COPC 1690
29687
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/521
Subject: Optical instruments
Diffraction gratings
Spectrum analysis--Instruments
Astronomical instruments
Machinery
Optical laboratories
Workshops
Jacomini, Clement
Interiors
Pasadena (Calif.)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Pasadena (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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